Category: Developments
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Developments in Cypriot Constitutional Law: The Year 2016 in Review
Editor’s Note: Today we publish the 2016 Report on Cypriot constitutional law, which appears in the larger 44-country Global Review of Constitutional Law, now available here in a smaller file size for downloading and emailing. —Constantinos Kombos, Associate Professor of Public Law, Law Department, University of Cyprus.
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Ecuador’s “Unstoppable” Constitutional Referendum
—Mauricio Guim, S.J.D. candidate and Presidential Fellow in Data Science, University of Virginia School of Law & Augusto Verduga, LL.M. candidate, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Quito, Ecuador[1] Soon after winning the presidential election, new President Lenin Moreno announced a referendum to amend Ecuador’s Constitution.
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Developments in Slovak Constitutional Law: The Year 2016 in Review
Editor’s Note: Today we publish the 2016 Report on Slovak constitutional law, which appears in the larger 44-country Global Review of Constitutional Law, now available here in a smaller file size for downloading and emailing. —Tomáš Ľalík, Associate Professor, Comenius University, Kamil Baraník, Assistant Professor, Comenius University, Šimon Drugda, LLM Candidate, Nagoya University I.
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Five Questions with Mila Versteeg
—Richard Albert, Boston College Law School In our recurring I-CONnect feature on “Five Questions,” we invite a public law scholar to answer five questions about his or her research. This edition of “Five Questions” features Mila Versteeg, Class of 1941 Research Professor of Law and Director of the Human Rights Program at the University of Virginia. Her bio
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Call for Papers and Panels–Identity, Security, Democracy: Challenges for Public Law–ICON-S 2018 Annual Conference–Hong Kong, June 25-27, 2018
The International Society of Public Law (ICON-S) is pleased to announce that its 2018 Annual Conference will be held in Hong Kong on June 25-27, 2018, under the auspices of the University of Hong Kong’s Faculty of Law and its Centre for Comparative and Public Law – one of Asia’s foremost centres for the study…
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Developments in Irish Constitutional Law: The Year 2016 in Review
Editor’s Note: Today we publish the 2016 Report on Irish constitutional law, which appears in the larger 44-country Global Review of Constitutional Law, now available here in a smaller file size for downloading and emailing. —Dr. Eoin Carolan, Associate Professor, University College Dublin I.
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Developments in Turkish Constitutional Law: The Year 2016 in Review
Editor’s Note: Today we publish the 2016 Report on Turkish constitutional law, which appears in the larger 44-country Global Review of Constitutional Law, now available here in a smaller file size for downloading and emailing. –Serkan Köybaşı, Assistant Professor of Constitutional Law at Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul I.
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What’s New in Public Law
–Simon Drugda, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford (UK) In this weekly feature, I-CONnect publishes a curated reading list of developments in public law. “Developments” may include a selection of links to news, high court decisions, new or recent scholarly books and articles, and blog posts from around the public law blogosphere.
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How the Bolivian Constitutional Court Helped the Morales Regime to Break the Political Insurance of the Bolivian Constitution
—Sergio Verdugo, Professor, Universidad del Desarrollo (Chile); JSD candidate, New York University* In a 2016 referendum, a majority of Bolivians stopped President Evo Morales from running for a fourth Presidential term by rejecting a constitutional reform aimed at eliminating the constitutional limits on reelection.